Series Notes- The Lindenwood women's hockey team starts a four-game homestand this weekend with a pair of games against RIT at the Lindenwood Ice Arena. The Lady Lions and Tigers will play at 7 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. on Saturday.
- Lindenwood is looking to snap a four-game losing streak in CHA play. The Lady Lions are now 7-15-1 overall and 4-7-1 in league action after being swept last weekend at Robert Morris.
- RIT enters the series with a 9-14-3 overall record and a 3-8-1 mark in league play. The Tigers are 2-2-0 over their last four conference games after starting CHA play with a 1-6-1 mark.
- Lindenwood is currently in fifth place in the league standings with nine points. The Lady Lions have a two-point lead over RIT, and they are three points behind third-place Robert Morris and Syracuse.
- The Lady Lions went 1-0-1 against RIT earlier this season in Rochester, N.Y. The two teams skated to a 1-1 tie in the first game, before the Lady Lions won game two by a 3-1 margin.
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Shara Jasper and
Nicole Hensley earned CHA Players of the Week honors after the first RIT series. Jasper had two points and a +2 plus/minus, while Hensley had a 0.96 GAA and a .973 save percentage.
- RIT leads the all-time series with Lindenwood by a 4-2-4 margin. Eight of the ten games between the two have been decided by two or fewer goals. The series is tied 1-1-2 in games played in Wentzville, Mo.
Lindenwood Notes- Lindenwood lost the opening game of last weekend's Robert Morris series by a 2-1 score. The Lady Lions hit the pipes twice in the final five minutes of the game and had to go into an overtime period. In overtime, the Colonials scored with 21 seconds remaining.
- The Lady Lions led game two of that series after one period, but Robert Morris scored six second-period goals and eventually won by a 7-1 margin.
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Holly Dietzler scored her first collegiate goal in the first game of the series. Her goal broke a scoreless tie at the 6:45 mark of the third period.
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Lyndsay Kirkham scored an unassisted goal in game two of the series. It was the fifth unassisted goal for the Lady Lions this season.
- Other skaters who recorded points in the series were
Jordyn Constance and
Tae Otte, who both assisted on the goal in game one.
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Jordyn Constance needs just one more goal this year to have double-figures for the season. Constance, who scored just five goals her first three years, will become the fourth Lady Lions to record 10 or more goals in a season.
Shara Jasper is also close to that mark with eight tallies.
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Shara Jasper is also one point away from reaching 20 for the season. She will be the fifth Lady Lion to record 20 or more points in a season.
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Nicole Hensley is approaching 3,000 saves for her career. She enters this week needing 97 more to reach that milestone. There are currently just 17 goalies in NCAA Division I history with over 3,000 saves.
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Britannia Gillanders is currently in the top-10 in the CHA in freshman scoring with six points.
- Lindenwood's goalies have a .939 save percentage in the first periods of games this year. Their percentages are below .900 for periods two and three.
- Lindenwood and RIT have struggled on power plays this year, as both teams have converted less than 10 percent of the time. The Tigers have not scored in their last 20 power-play chances, while the Lady Lions are scoreless in their last 12 power plays.
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Lyndsay Kirkham leads active Lindenwood players with three goals against RIT.
Katie Erickson has scored twice against the Tigers
- In her career,
Nicole Hensley is 2-3-4 against RIT. She has made 332 saves and has a .951 save percentage agaisnt the Tigers.
- Lindenwood has tied its program record for most NCAA Division I wins in a season, and needs just one more win to tie the program record for most wins in a season.
- Starting with this week's games, Lindenwood will play six of its final eight regular season games at the Lindenwood Ice Arena. The Lady Lions have already tied a school record for home wins this season.
- Lindenwood will be at home again on Feb. 6-7 with a conference series against Penn State. The two teams split a series earlier this year at Penn State.
- The Feb. 6 game will be the team's annual "Pink the Rink" contest, in which the hockey program raises money for SSM Breast Care. Fans can bid on the limited-edition pink jerseys that Lindenwood will wear that weekend by
clicking here.